Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue seas. Around him was gathered an intimate group, some two dozen personal friends and members of his official family. They were there to witness the administration of two oaths of office, simple in themselves, but of large importance to the company inside, to the country outside. The chief clerk of the Treasury swore in stalwart Henry Morgenthau Jr. as Undersecretary of the Treasury, swore in Dr. William Irving Myers to succeed Mr. Morgenthau as Governor of the Farm Credit Administration...
...first things the American Ornithologists' Union did after its organization in 1883 was to advertise for volunteer observers of bird migrations. From a young New Jersey bank clerk named Chapman came an enthusiastic response. Each weekday morning from early March to late May of 1884 Volunteer Chapman got up at dawn, gulped a cup of coffee, set out with notebook and field glasses to tramp the woods & fields around his home. He had to catch a 7:39 a. m. train to get to his Manhattan job, but when the spring reports were in Chapman's were judged...
...former ruling forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquor near churches, schools, and colleges has not been included in the currently proposed law. When asked for an explanation of this move, James P. Reilly, confidential clerk of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, said that the majority of hotels, drug stores, taverns, and inns, were at present within the forbidden area, and that it would be impractical to prevent them on this ground from selling liquor. Many of Boston's largest hotels are practically next door to the churches and schools, he pointed...
Frederic William Goudy's interest in the shape and style of letters started as a child when he decorated his Sunday School room with texts redrawn from specimen letters in an old type book and cut out of fancy wallpaper. As bookkeeper, clerk, unsuccessful publisher, ad vertising artist, he never lost interest in letters. From Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers, other famed printers and designers have built great reputations on the strength of two or three original alphabets. In the centre of the Goudy exhibition last week a streamer list hung from a column. It started with Camelot, 1896, ended...
Born. To John Coolidge, 27, railway clerk, son of the late Calvin Coolidge, and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 28, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull : a daughter, their first child; in New Haven, Conn. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Cynthia. Divorced. "Prince" David Mdivani, eldest of Russia's famed "Marrying Mdivanis"; by Mae Murray, onetime cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: extreme cruelty, unreasonable jealousy, hos tility toward her guests. Awarded. To Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body) : the Roosevelt Medal "for distinguished service." To the late John Ripley Freeman (died...